The Sandiganbayan (the anti-graft court) has allowed several persons who were ordered arrested in connection with the sensational P365-million Cebu lamppost scandal to post P30,000 bail to secure their temporary liberty.

The man with his ever present and faithful side-kick Sancho Pancha, is known for his big dreams, his fertile imagination and consequent strange language and/or funny behavior. It would be hard to fault him with such a bearing or stance whereas he simply thought and acted according to what he thought of, willed and therefore did. Thus it is that to this date and time, his good intentions are celebrated with delight and his ludicrous antics are recalled with fun, in the course of history. Personalities like him are wherefore described as “quixotic,” viz.,.... MORE

“I just want Manny Pacquiao to win, sir. Miguel Cotto at fight time will easily outweigh Manny by five pounds, and that’s supposed to be a huge advantage for him. I hope Manny wins because he is a Filipino. We’ve been ravaged so ruthlessly by calamities — both at the hands of nature and Gloria Arroyo’s corrupt shebang — it’s only fair we get a breather and a little reminder from above we’re still cared for,” Cindy Olondriz exhorts, adding she hates Arroyo “to the bone marrow.” Cindy desperately needs an assurance it’s not the end of our race, so Pacquiao.... MORE